Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why | it would be so? The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Chris Rowson wrote: | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why | it would be so? The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics card? I think that this should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Matthew Wild
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP back onto it to see the if it would make any difference

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Jmaes Edward Grabham
Matthew Wild wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Morley
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: Matthew Wild wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread James Grabham
Oh yeah, found this on ubuntuforums I fixed this problem by removing ia32-libs, flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper, then installing ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb from http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/ (It is an older version than what installs in apt-get), then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Kris Douglas
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: Matthew Wild wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various

[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. I've just